9/17/2020: Professor who lied about ethnicity quits university post - Big tippers: Alaska man joins push to aid restaurant workers

Today's Article: Professor who lied about ethnicity quits university post
From: The New York Post
Readability Score: 12.1

A George Washington University professor shocked her students and her employers by admitting that she had lied for years about being black. Discuss her confession and resulting resignation; then examine race and identity politics with izzit's I Am Human.

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Today's Alternate Article: Big tippers: Alaska man joins push to aid restaurant workers
Readability Score: 9.1

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NEW RELEASE - Outside the Box from izzit.org

NEW RELEASE

Don’t ask me what I am. Ask me who I am.

Imagine trying to register your child for school and being forced to reduce a complex racial ancestry to one checkbox… 

Eli Steele just wants to register his son Jack for kindergarten. He has no idea the journey this will begin, or the questions it will lead to. 

They have a complex family history. Son of slaves. Daughter of the revolution. Holocaust survivors. Interracial marriage pioneers in an era of segregation and discrimination. 

Jack and his younger sister June have an even more complicated ancestry when you consider their mother’s heritage – a Mormon settler and Mexican immigrant. 

So when Eli is required to reduce Jack to a single checkmark in front of a race box…it doesn’t sit well with him. 

Explore Eli, Jack, and June’s powerful story of individuality vs. group identity. 

Do you fit inside a box? 

Adapted from the award-winning documentary, How Jack Became Black.

Find out in Outside the Box here.

Outside the Box - Coming Soon to izzit.org!

"Don't ask me what  I am. Ask me who I am."

Eli Steele just wants to register his son Jack for kindergarten. He has no idea the journey this will begin, or the questions it will lead to.

They have a complex family history. Son of slaves. Daughter of the revolution. Holocaust survivors. Interracial marriage pioneers in an era of segregation and discrimination.

Explore Eli and Jack's powerful story of individuality vs. group identity, how to cope with bullies, and the resilience of the human spirit in our new release, Outside the Box.

Adapted from the award-winning documentary, How Jack Became Black.

www.HowJackBecameBlack.com